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- adjective In the style of the Italian painter Raphael.
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Examples
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Raphael's power, such as it characters in his mind; it is "Raphaelesque," properly so called; but Titian's power is simply the power of doing right.
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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"Caractacus" cartoon, were to be seen in this new effort, where, as has been said, the English king stands like a Raphaelesque archangel in the midst of the design.
Watts (1817-1904) William Loftus Hare
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Raphaelesque, -- tender grace and melancholy; but about these frank blue eyes and full red lips lurked the good-nature of a healthy school-boy, the quaint, unchecked humor of a man upon whose life had fallen the sunshine of prosperity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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The effort to be Raphaelesque ruined the effect of many a noble piece of technique, after that.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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In Italy the art had almost died out in the early sixteenth century, but revived in full and florid force under the Raphaelesque influence.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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What Mozart, with his Raphaelesque imagination and temperament, would have been for church music had he lived at a different time and in different surroundings, or risen above his own, can easily be imagined.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Women who have treated of maternity in books or pictures have usually handled it in exactly the same spirit in which it is commonly handled by men – from what may be termed the conventional or Raphaelesque point of view.
Marriage as a Trade 1909
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And I have always been struck by the attitude of the women who have discussed it – an attitude which, judged by the conventional or Raphaelesque standard, might be described as typically unfeminine and unmaternal – since their sympathies were invariably and unreservedly on the side of the erring mother, and I cannot remember having heard a single woman's voice raised in defence of the right to its life of the unwanted child.
Marriage as a Trade 1909
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It is the formal Raphaelesque idea; the other and much better one shows a division of the picture into thirds.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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This is the Raphaelesque progression, and if fifty persons were asked who was the greatest painter, forty-nine would say Raphael, without discrimination.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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